Willi BAUMEISTER - Montaruru mit Rot (1953)

 

Montaruru mit Rot

1953
Oil painting on canvas (100x81 cm)
Private collection

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Large egg-shaped spots appear on the painting. The relationship between these two great presences, both from the point of view of color and from that of form, is obscure and this causes a sensation of contrasts and disconnections of tension and discomfort.

The larger forms are connected with small appendages which connect the larger forms to the smaller ones; a sort of organic microuniverse in which the appendages seem to be channels of communication or the source of the development of the smallest forms.

Baumeister's early works are inspired by Fernand Léger; in the course of his career, however, he developed an expressive style of his own which he recognized as "abstract surrealism".

Baumeister was a passionate lover of the philosophy of art, he was certain that the imagination could produce forms that came from the deepest and most ancient roots of humanity. These ideas of him were deepened in a book published in 1947 entitled "The unknown in art" [Das Unbekannte in der Kunst].

His works do not present clear and simple subjects to decode and must be considered as a representation of "other" realities.

Comparing artistis: Arp, Dalí, Heron, Léger, Matisse, Miró